Comment & Opinion

Will the nation’s biannual ritual of moving the clock backward and forward an hour soon be a thing of the past? Perhaps, but it’s no sure thing. The H...

Since 2019, school districts across 24 states and Puerto Rico have lost $225 million to fraud confirmed by the U.S. Department of Education inspector ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — The median house price in Nantucket, Massachusetts, is nearly $4 million. It was just $500,000 in 1995. This sounds like a stunning i...

Energy affordability is top of mind across America, but in Northeast Pennsylvania it is especially personal. After living in the region for close to 2...

For almost a decade, the federal government’s budget for Antarctic research included little money for actual scientific inquiry, and a boatload of cas...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — It would be political folly for the Democratic Party to fully embrace calls to “abolish ICE,” at least without adopting a substitut...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Unable to pass its controversial legislation to tighten voting laws and facing dubious mid-term election prospects, the Trump admin...

President Donald Trump returned to a familiar theme last week, delivering a prime-time address on election integrity that implied that many states all...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Democratic U.S. Sen. John Fetterman has a higher net approval rating among Republicans — and a much worse net approval rating among...

How often in life have you prepared to tackle a task only to realize you don’t have the right tool for the job? For instance, I used to think a simple...

Remember when planning a summer day meant glancing out the window to see if it might rain? Summer now comes with a checklist. What’s the temperature? ...

MINNEAPOLIS (TNS) — “The Odyssey” is on its own odyssey. The epic poem from ancient Greece about the mythical Ithacan King Odysseus’ ordeal getting ho...

NEW YORK (TNS) — In the push to regulate artificial intelligence, a dangerous idea is gaining ground in Washington: handing the government ownership s...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration canceled development on a new rocket launcher after already spending $1.4 billion on the project. Th...

There is no unilateral action that will bring the U.S.-led conflict with Iran to termination, and while both sides are incentivized in their own ways ...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — In an obituary in The Atlantic for U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, Robert Fontaine relates the following quotation from the late Republic...

The Pentagon has a well-deserved reputation for erring on the side of secrecy when classifying documents. Now it wants even more power to hide informa...

As our nation celebrates the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, we should reflect on the values we share as a democr...

STATE COLLEGE (TNS) — It was my turn to gather with the church preschool children for monthly chapel time. Soon I would be in the sanctuary with three...

When families in Pennsylvania open their electric bills, they need an explanation for why electricity keeps getting more expensive. Come November, vot...